---
title: Improvement Era
description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930.
authors:
  - Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
collections:
  - periodicals
tags:
  - magazine
  - improvement-era
periodical: Improvement Era
volume: 11
number: 6
published: 1908-04
publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
publisher_place: Salt Lake City
language: en
type: magazine
reference: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, *Improvement Era* 11, no. 6 (April 1908).
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1106unse
  transcription: Transcribed from the Internet Archive scan of each issue (the item for each issue is named in the issue's own source); unnumbered advertising leaves are omitted, printed page numbers are kept as page markers.
  identifier: improvementera1106unse
curator_note: Cover, masthead, and contents are retained as bibliographic matter. The editorial run is printed pp. 401–488; the unnumbered advertising leaves before and after that run are omitted under the Improvement Era advertising policy.
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1908-04)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1106unse
  publication_year: 1908
  note: The Internet Archive item metadata carries a blanket "© Copyright by Intellectual Reserve, Inc." notice. The library owner judged it inapplicable because this issue was published in 1908, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright.
---

# *Improvement Era*, April 1908

*Improvement Era*. Volume 11, no. 6. April 1908. Organ of the Seventies and Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations; published by the General Board, Salt Lake City.

## Contents

- Lord Kelvin, the God-Fearing, 401.
- What of the Home-Coming?—A Narrative Based on Real Life, 407.
- The Old Willow Stream: A Poem, 412.
- Lifters and Leaners, 413.
- For the Increase of Faith: Literal Fulfilment of Blessings Received through the Holy Priesthood, 418.
- Romance of a Missionary—VI. London, 420.
- An Oriental Prayer, 431.
- Birthplace of Joseph Smith the Prophet—Alvin’s Peak—and Deer; The Lily Pond, 435.
- Who Wrote the Pentateuch?, 437.
- Thoughts of a Farmer—VI. Inequalities, 443.
- Which Are You?, 446.
- The Law of Tithing, 448.
- A Lesson from Lincoln, 450.
- The Mission of Our Master: A Poem, 455.
- The Boy Problem—IV. An Ideal, 456.
- The World’s Great Religions—IV. Zoroastrianism, 461.
- Editor’s Table—Order of the Priesthood, 465.
- Seventy’s Council Table, 472.
- Mutual Work—Junior Athletic Games in the Twentieth Ward, 476.
- Events and Comments, 480.